 It may be here sufficient to observe, that INDRA, or the firmament, fire, the sun, the moon, water, air, the spirits, the atmosphere and the earth, are the objects most frequently addressed...  The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed - 383. oldalszerző: National cyclopaedia - 1879Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Asiatic Society of Bengal - 1808 - 582 oldal
...It may be here sufficient to observe, that INDRA, or the firmament, fire, the sun, the moon, water, air, the spirits, the atmosphere and the earth, are the objects most frequently addressed : and the various and repeated sacrifices with fire, and the drinking of the milky juice of the moon-plant... | |
 | Vans Kennedy - 1831 - 666 oldal
...Hindu religion ; for, he remarks that in them Indra or the firmament, fire, the sun, the moon, water, air, the spirits, the atmosphere, and the earth, are the objects most frequently addressed ; and that every line is replete with allusions to mythology, and to the Indian notions of the divine... | |
 | 1835 - 430 oldal
...verse, the number of stanzas and the metre. Indra, or the firmament, fire, the sun, the moon, water, air, the spirits, the atmosphere, and the earth are the objects most frequently addressed". Several specimens of hymns from various Vedas have already been given in the chapter on the religion... | |
 | Hindus - 1835 - 434 oldal
...verse, the number of stanzas and the metre. Indra, or the firmament, fire, the sun, the moon, water, air, the spirits, the atmosphere, and the earth are the objects most frequently addressed11. Several specimens of hymns from various Vedas have already been given in the chapter on... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 390 oldal
...verse the number of stanzas and the metre. Indra, or the firmament, fire, the sun, the moon, water, air, the spirits, the atmosphere, and the earth are the objects most frequently addressed. The following is Mr. Colebrooke's literal translation of a single prayer from the Rig-Veda : — 1 Asiatic... | |
 | Georg Friedrich Creuzer - 1836 - 646 oldal
...„It maybehere sufficient to obscrve, that Indra, or the flrniamcut, Are, the sun, the IHOOU, water, air, the spirits, the atmosphere and the earth, are the objects most frequently addressed etc." 2) S. Herodot. I. 131. Plato Cratyl. p. 397. c. vgl. oben den Allgemeinen Thell dieses Werks... | |
 | John Forbes Royle - 1837 - 230 oldal
...Mantras, or prayers, and the Brahmanas, or precepts. Indra, or the firmament, fire, the sun, moon, water, air, the spirits, the atmosphere, and the earth, are the objects most frequently addressed. The language of a considerable portion is an obsolete, and frequently very obscure dialect of Sanscrit.... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 388 oldal
...verse the number of stanzas and the metre. Indra, or the firmament, fire, the sun, the moon, water, air, the spirits, the atmosphere, and the earth are the objects most frequently addressed. The following is Mr. Colebrooke's literal translation of a single prayer from the Rig- Veda : — 1 Asiatic... | |
 | Henry Thomas Colebrooke - 1837 - 472 oldal
...It may be here sufficient to observe, that INDRA, or the firmament, fire, the sun, the moon, water, air, the spirits, the atmosphere and the earth, are the objects most frequently addressed : and the various and repeated sacrifices with fire, and the drinking of the milky juice of the moon-plant... | |
 | 1839 - 524 oldal
...inculcate religious duties, maxims which explain those precepts, and arguments which relate to theology.' The original worship of the Hindus appears to have...the atmosphere, and the earth, are the objects most Irequently addressed. The mythology of the Vedas personifies the elements and the planets, and thus... | |
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